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What is intelligence, anyway I...

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

But the big feature of human-l...

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does what it is works but what it does when it's stuck.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Once the computers got control...

Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Each part of the mind sees onl...

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and 'represented.' We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves-apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge-and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers-but not to us as psychologists-because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

If we understood something jus...

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

It makes no sense to seek a si...

It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

You don't understand anything ...

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Listening to music engages the...

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

We must see that music theory ...

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

It would be as useless to perc...

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

This is a tricky domain becaus...

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

We wanted to solve robot probl...

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Everything, including that whi...

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

I cannot articulate enough to ...

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

It's ridiculous to live 100 ye...

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Logic doesn't apply to the rea...

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

Kubrick's vision seemed to be ...

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

But just as astronomy succeede...

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

The principal activities of br...

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

We'll show you that you can bu...

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

Marvin Lee Minsky 77 quotes

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